New Site Enhances FM’s Leading Position in Tech-Oriented Conversational Media and Marketing
SAUSALITO, Calif., June 05, 2008 – Federated Media Publishing (FM) today announced that DeveloperShed, the leading IT industry resource of information for developers and programmers, has joined FM’s family of social and conversational media sites. FM aggregates its content partners into vertically-oriented Federations such as Tech, Green, Parenting, Video Gaming and more. Now, DeveloperShed finds itself in good company alongside media standouts like GigaOm, Boing Boing and others.
“We’ve worked very, very hard to create and sustain the largest, most well-respected and most influential developer community on the Web,” said Jonathan Caputo, founder of DeveloperShed. “We’ve done this by staying true to our vision of an active developer community supported by dynamic, credible content – both editorial and user-generated. FM supports this vision. They’re true believers and I don’t think we could have found a better partner.”
DeveloperShed’s 12 sites feature daily news and articles by acclaimed authors and boast the most popular developer forums on the Internet. The laser focus on developer technologies, including PHP, MySQL, Linux, Oracle, Microsoft and other platforms, supports the daily habits of an enormous community of software development professionals developing applications in all major vertical industries on all significant platforms.
The sites attract 6 million unique visitors and 27 million page views per month and are growing rapidly, with an enormously valuable audience. More than 60% of the DeveloperShed audience will make or influence IT decisions, have purchasing authority for their company, and will purchase hardware, software or other products for personal use.
“Our greatest delight at FM is to support and nurture passionate, active communities,” said Neil Chase, vice president of author services at FM. “DeveloperShed boasts some of the most influential IT communities on the Web, and we look forward to working together on great projects as we continue to expand our Tech Federation.”
About Federated Media Publishing
At FM, we believe great voices attract great audiences. We’re in the business of supporting those voices by connecting them to great marketers, as well as providing a suite of services that let authors focus on what they do best: make compelling media. In so doing, we are creating federations of respected voices that prosper on their own terms. Current federations include Sports, Technology, Automotive, Business & Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Video Gaming, Graphics Arts, News 2.0, Lifestyle, Parenting and Green. For more information, please go to http://www.federatedmedia.net.